Thursday, August 21, 2008

Abortion harms Women

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council President, needs you to call on the American Psychological Association to do a new report that studies ALL the mental health risks to women that abortion poses, instead of cherry-picking items to back up a pre-determined position. Abortion and its negative impact have touched many lives and it is important that the APA receive a strong response to their biased report, Perkins states.

Call on the American Psychological Association to do a new report that studies ALL the mental health risks to women that abortion poses.

Let the APA Know Abortion Harms Women

Last week the American Psychological Association (APA) released a heavily biased report with a sweeping pro-abortion conclusion based upon one solitary study -- to the detriment of American women's health. In recklessly dismissing a body of scientific research which establishes the negative mental health effects associated with abortion, the APA has shown itself to be blind to the scientific evidence and callous towards the well-being of women.

The APA needs to hear from you that a new, more-scientifically based report is needed. Any research needs to be broader in scope and include studies that this report ignored; for example, studies that have highlighted the high prevalence of women affected by repeat abortions or studies that have shown an equally high number of women in the U.S. who have felt "coerced" into their abortions. There is a growing body of testimony from real women who have suffered from abortion, as cited by last year's Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Carhart which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion.

Please contact Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, the current President of the American Psychological Association, and let him know that this biased report does further harm to women by covering up the truth!"